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CNBC's strict guest policy, cont.

By Dylan Byers

02/22/13 11:05 AM EST

Last Friday, I reported on CNBC's strict booking policy: "In interviews with POLITICO, current and former CNBC guests, including financial executives from major American companies, said that they had to decline booking requests from rival networks, including Bloomberg TV and Fox Business, due to "CNBC rules." Some said their appearance on a rival network had resulted in CNBC cancelling a previously scheduled booking."

At the time, CNBC senior vice president of public relations Brian Steel denied the existence of any written policy: "I spoke with several reporters and checked our news practices and guidelines manual and I could not find the policy," he told POLITICO. "However, nobody seemed surprised that CEOs would cancel appearances on other networks to appear on CNBC first."

But NPR's David Folkenflik followed up on the story this week and obtained a copy of an email from a CNBC producer to a guest interviewed on CNBC earlier this month. The following warning is written in red:

CNBC POLICY REMINDER: Per CNBC policy, we cannot use guests who have a same-day appearance on Fox Business or Bloomberg...By accepting a booking with CNBC, you acknowledge and accept the terms of this policy.